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Button;

No. 230,352; Patented July 20, 1880,

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ALFRED J. SHIPLEY, OF WATERBURY, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO THE SCOVILL MANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

BUTTON.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 230,352, dated J'u1y 20, 1880. Application filed May 19, 1880- (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALFRED J. SHIPLEY, of Waterbury, in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented a new Improvement in Buttons; and I do hereby declare the following, when taken in connection with the accompanying drawings and the letters of referenoemarked thereon to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, which said drawings constitute part of thisspecification, and represent, in

Figure 1, face view of the button; Fig. 2, section on line a as; Fig. 3, the blank for the front; Fig. 4, perspective view of the inside of the front.

This invention relates to an improvenieutin that class of buttons forwearing-apparel commonly called suspender buttons, the object being to use a light metal and yet give the button sufficient strength at the perforation where it is secured to the garment; and the invention consists in the construction as hereinafter described, and particularly recited in the claim.

A represents the front of the button, which consists ofa disk out from sheet metal with a semicircular out, a, each side the center, leavin g the portions thus cut attached to a central part, b, as seen in Fig. 3.

On the under side, and in line with the central portion, 1), a piece of wire, (I, is laid, and the portions a at each side are turned over and struck onto the said wire, as seen in Figs. 2

and 4, so as to firmly secure it to the disk. Then the back 0 is placed onthe disk and the edge f of the disk or front A is struck down onto the back 6 in the usual manner, as seen in Fig. 2, the back having a central perforation, h, and may be with or without the rim m around, it. This completes the button, and leaves a strong central bar, I), with an opening, m, each side, through which the stitches may be taken or the securing device applied. v

The wire at should be a little longer than the diameter of the openings through the disk, and so as to extend onto the surface of the disk, as seen in Fig.4; but it need be but a little longer than that diameter, because the closingof the portions or lugs onto it firmly secures it in place.

I do not broadly claim the introduction of a wire bar across the central perforation in a button and between the frontand back, as such, I am aware, is not new; but

What I do claim is A button composed of the metal front A, having'the perforations a a out each side the center, and the wire 41 arranged between, and

the said portions a a closed thereon to secure the wire and form the central bar, b, combined with the centrally-perforated back 6, substantially as described.

ALFRED J. SHIPLEY.

Witnesses:

JOHN E. EARLE, Jos. O. EARLE. 

